With The Mentalist‘s future at CBS in serious doubt, I hear the studio behind the veteran drama, Warner Bros TV, has been quietly shopping the series to other networks, garnering some preliminary interest from broadcast and cable. Taking in a 6-year-old high-end drama is not an easy proposition, but WBTV is ready to explore every possible avenue — that’s how important a property The Mentalist is to the studio with its $2 million-plus-per-episode off-network deal at TNT and big international sales including France, where it is the No. 1 scripted serie.

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

In a recent interview, Chris Long, Executive Producer and Director on The Mentalist, talked about the Show's future:

The Mentalist may or may not be picked up for its seventh season by CBS. Long suggested that Warner Bros production chieftain Peter Roth (repping the studio that produces and distributes the show) and CBS CEO Leslie Moonves were probably “huddled right now” to make a deal – or not. And if not, Long thinks the Simon Baker starrer very well could go elsewhere, with TNT being a possible contender. “The show does have 50 million viewers around the world so, well, we’ll see,”

We still don't know if the show will be back for a seventh season. Simon Baker was on the Ellen Degeneres Show yesterday, and he confirmed they still don't know.USA Today reports that Warner Brothers (the show's Producer) "already is shopping the show elsewhere" (quote from this article).I remind you that the new episode of The Mentalist, 6x17 "Silver Wings Of Time" will air on CBS Sunday April 13.

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

There is a new project going on called "“Hop into a Hug in a Cup”, organized by @SaveMentalist to show our support to The Mentalist's Cast&Crew, with a campaign that will address the CBS.To read everything about it, head over to the project's blog, righ HERESpread the word and join it! ;)Thank you!

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

This week's Insider's Blog, about episode 6x16 "Violets" is written by Jordan Harper, Writer of the episode.

When I was assigned to write episode 616 of The Mentalist, I started with one very simple idea. I had just finished writing “The Great Red Dragon,” which was our show at its darkest, so for this one I wanted to do an episode where our characters had fun and Robin Tunney wore a pretty dress. In fact, in the episode she wears two pretty dresses, and a lot of the other characters get new clothes as well, so I more than reached my goal. (our costume designer Amanda Friedland deserves a special shout-out for this episode).That simple idea quickly grew into the idea of a long con, art heists and Jane and Lisbon going undercover as a couple. I quickly knew I would have to break the conventions of a normal Mentalist episode, where the identity of the killer is a mystery until the end. Instead, we meet the bad guys very quickly in order to give Jane and the team more time to mess with their minds. Also, in most episodes Jane’s trick isn’t fully revealed to the audience until the killer is caught, but this time we played the con cards-up.While Jane and Lisbon working together is the center of the episode, the rest of the team really shines as well. Cho, Abbott and Fischer get to show new sides of their characters, and I was particularly impressed with Joe Adler as Wiley, who gets to serve as the narrator of the long con.But my favorite part of the episode to shoot was the exciting art heist that opens the episode. I love a good heist film, and director J Miller Tobin did a great job of giving the scene some thrilling moments. The days on set when you get to watch while an SUV is driven through a plate-glass wall and men with masks and machine guns jump out, and it all is happening because of things you typed … those are the days its good to be a TV writer.While on the surface the episode is a fun stand-alone, it also introduces a subplot that will play out for the rest of the season: Lisbon meets Marcus Pike (played by the great Pedro Pascal), who is immediately taken by Lisbon. I don’t want to give too much away, but I will say this about Pike: his best character trait is one that Jane may be lacking when it comes to Lisbon, and I think it’s that trait is what makes Pike appeal to Lisbon. But of course this episode is the beginning of this story, not the end of it. So stay tuned …

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